Apps

Peggle Blast is the latest installment in the Peggle series from PopCap and EA, bringing more peg-popping fun to mobile. Blast has new challenges, new Peggle masters, and new obstacles to let you test your skills.

Pandora has announced the latest update to their mobile app, which they are releasing in beta form today. The update emphasizes greater personalization to the service. This will be serviced by a new design that places an emphasis on station management and artist discovery.

Realmac Software — the developer behind apps like Clear and Ember — has launched Typed, a Markdown editor designed for OS X Yosemite. Featuring a minimalistic UI with licensed fonts, a distraction-free writing mode, word and character counts, auto save support and extensive keyboard shortcuts, Typed aims to be the most feature-rich Markdown text editor available for the Mac.

Google Play Books for the iPhone and iPad is the subject of a major update that's now available for download. The update boosts its version number up to 2.0 and adds a number of new features, along with a user interface refresh that brings the Material Design themes of Android 5.0 Lollipop to the app.

Smile Software, the developer behind TextExpander and PDFpen Scan has released PDFpen 2 for iPhone and iPad, a new app, separate from the original PDFpen. It lets you mark up, edit, sign, and fill out PDF documents. PDFpen 2 requires iOS 8 or later.

Looking for the best iPhone apps to replace the built-in Mail app? Email is an important part of both our professional and personal lives. Nowadays most people have multiple inboxes to manage and lots of messages to sort through. While the built-in Mail app has a lot of features and the home-turf advantage, it doesn't have everything. Luckily, that's why there are lots of alternatives to choose from in the App Store. But which mail apps for iPhone are the absolute best to choose from?

November is winding down and the dust is settling from Black Friday insanity, so it's time to look back on the month and all of the great new apps and games that have been released. This go-around we have some excellent strategy games, as well as a few action titles to keep you on your toes. On the app side, we've got some apps perfect for music fans, and some new social apps to try out.

It's been a really good month for iOS apps and games. Dive into our top ten list of the latest App Store releases, and be sure to drop a comment with the best new stuff to grace your home screen.

A new report says that Microsoft is planning to launch a version of its Power BI business intelligence tool for the iPhone and iPad, in what could be just the latest example of the company launching products and services beyond its Windows platform.